The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1887-03-26
IR|sHMEN IN SCOTLAND.
4 Meeting to Vindicate Ireland's Rigt1
to Liberty Held in the City
Of Glasgow.
DR.. TANNERS GREAT SPEECH.
The Speaker Ably Defends the Plan Of
Campaign An Imperative
Demand.

The "Glasgow Observer in the last
numb er received in our mail, contains
the following account Of mass meet
ing Of [rishmeu III GLASGOW, presided
over by Father Murphy.
Shortly after s o'clock. the secretary
Mr.. Fitzgerald, announced that it
would be some time before Dr.. Tanner
would arrive and in the meantime he
moved that Father Murphy of Uddings-
ton take the chair.
Father Murphy, VINO was enthusiastic
cal]y received. said he had to congratu-
late the natives Of the three southern
provinces and their friends from the
north, who Were present that evening.
(Applause.) They were with their
friends Of the north when they had
their reunions TO congratulate them
upon the victories Of The past year AMI
to re-echo with them Derry Walls
Away {Applause.} He was glad the
men of the north were there that eve
ming, it was a sign--a hopeful one-and
it spoke of United Ireland-(appause)
an Ireland determined to fight and win
q National Parliament. (Arplause.(
Thatdemand was made. not BIZ a frac~-
ton Of the country, but made by the
whole country from Antrim's Cliffs to
Kerry Strands. (Applause.) 1t was
demand made imperative by the sad
and deso]ate scenes Of Gweedore,
(Hear, hear.) They had conferred an
honor on him by asking him TO take up
the position of the chairman, He did
SO with pleasure although, at the same
time, the position was something like
all emergency man. daughter and
applause.)
The concert was then proceeded with,
and at al interval was addressed by
DIR. Tanner, who WAS accorded an en-
thusiastic reception. lie said that the
more he considered the great struggle
through which they Were passing at the
present time, and the wonderful way in
which the Scotch. the Welsh, and the
Cornish people had taken np the cause,
the more he believed that the onlens
were favorable. (Applause.) They
had been told by many public men, and
no later than Monday night by Ran
delphi Churchill (hisses} that the cause
of Home Rule was dead. Lord Ran
1.,pb (,I,rrct,ill ,r.,c, o,, o,>trc,oo}v r, l,Io
and powerful man in his own particular
line. He had not been powerful TO
create much but he was powerful for
destruction. daughter and cheers.
Tn the House OF Commons Lord Ran
dolph had told them that the Tory party
were going to stand alone, that they
had hitherto been dependent upon a
crutch, and the crutch WAS the Liberal
Unionists. (Hear, hear and laughter.)
BY his utterance LORD Randolph had
done d good deal to kick away that
crutch from under the Tory party, and
TIE result would be chat the Tory 4Ad-
would come to the ground.
(Cheers.) Therefore: instead Of saying
against L>rd Randolph
they ought to give him g vote
Of thanks. daughter and cheers.) All
the same, Lord Randolph did not admit
the claims of Ireland; but how power
ful had been the impetus which had
been given to the national movement
by the great men who had aided them
outside Of their own country. Need he
mention William Ewart Gladstone
who when the unwritten page
Of his history came to be jotted down
would be found to have been consistent
from the beginning to the end
,Cheers.} Who were those Who had be-
haved so shamefully and so disgrace
fully to Mr.. Gladstone, and who cla-
mored for chains and slavery? Chains
and slavery were invariably connected
with the Tory administration. CHEERS
The Tories never get on without them.
Their OLD ship was SO rotten that if they
lid not sling it round with chains it |
would fal! to pieces [Laughter.} Be-
lore passing from the Tories he would |
ike to say few words about the pres
ant Chief Secretary, Sir Michael Hicks /
'Botch." daughter and cheers.) He
vent over to Ireland to carry out an i'm
possible task-to demonstrate that firm
administration was the only means of
solving the question-and that Ireland
vas perfect paradise. Unfortunately
'uch was not the case. Sir Michael went
,ut at very bad time, and instead ofI
settling the affairs of Ireland he was
making a greater muddle of them than
,ver. Naughter.) He tried to put a
title pressure on the landlords and a
little pressure on the tenants. but in the
ulflment of the old proverb he had
% lion latwonn two StOOlg IT T,anphtAr y